Anxiety
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Inner Storm
Inner storm Hidden anxiety Constant torturer My sworn enemy I have felt your winds Batter my heart Stirring from slumber As soon as it gets dark I hate that feeling Of loss of control As the dark clouds gather And begin to swirl But when I sit still And let you do your worst It’s Continue reading
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The Storm Inside
A storm swirls Engulfing all I see But a fiercer storm Awakes within me It accelerates far quicker Than the one outside Driven by anxiety At what is before my eyes Fear begins to build Lets rip with roaring thunder Panic flashes in me Lightning bolts of wonder My worries like a whisk Kept my Continue reading
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The Invisibility Cloak
A young man lives In a shroud of smoke His staggering steps hidden For he wears an invisibility cloak He found it one day In a cupboard in his room It promised to hide his secrets Instead, it became his tomb To all who looked at himHe looked like he was doing ok But underneath, Continue reading
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Black Bird 2
Black bird at my bedpost During the night Built a nest in my skull To rest from its flight It hovered above me In the days so long Until I looked up And saw something was wrong Its shadow did not match Its skeletal frame And the screech that it made Was to hide that Continue reading
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Rest and Reading
The noise in my head Is finally gone The winter nights Giving way to the dawn The heat on my back Is beginning to cool And that pain in my chest Is not quite as cruel The fear at my heels Is being left behind And that knot of tension Is starting to subside I Continue reading
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Adversity Is Not The End
Though the fire burns, It will not consume me Though the flood rises, It will not drown me Though the wind howls, It will not stop me Though the lightning flashes, It will not blind me Though the storm rages, It will not engulf me Though the lava encircles, It will not entrap me Though Continue reading
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The Black Bird 2
I am angry I am hurt I lived my life Haunted by a black bird A dark shadow Over my shoulder Its screeching cries Making me shiver It stood at my bedpost During the night Built a nest in my skull To rest from its flight It chased me around In fear for so long Continue reading
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The Black Bird
A lament Knife edged talons Black as night And wings, such wings They blot out the light It descends With a terrible cry A bloodcurdling scream That twists the insides A clawed dark cloud Imbued with fears My eyes darken With blood-red tears Each wing’s beat A vicious hurricane As it drags its victim Back Continue reading
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Rivers of Thoughts
My thoughts were a river Streaming around and above me A torrent of tension Between who I am and who I want to be I waded in Embraced their depths Tried to contain their power Holding my arms outstretched But the surge only swelled Sweeping me off my feet I was dragged to the depths Continue reading
Anxiety, Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, Fear, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Rumination, Trauma, Writing -
I Have Suffered
I have suffered I have hurt Been tortured unfairly By shame, been burnt I have been shrouded By the darkness of depression Have felt the ice-cold winds Of loneliness and isolation I have heard the whisperings Felt the spider legs creep Of fear and anxiety On my back, just out of reach I know what Continue reading
Anxiety, Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, Fear, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trauma, Writing
Dawn & Dusk 